President Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to probe all cyber attacks and alleged foreign intervention in the 2016 presidential election. He wants reports ready before he leaves office next month. A homeland security adviser said cyber attacks may have crossed a new threshold this year.
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threshold：['θreʃəʊld; 'θreʃ,həʊld]
n. 入口；门槛；开始；极限；临界值
A report commissioned by the World Anti-doping Agency says Russia has been running a state-sponsored cheating programme that's benefited more than a thousand athletes from thirty sports. Its author said there was irrefutable proof that the doping and cover-up programme had hijacked international sporting events. Moscow said there was no proof.
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irrefutable：[ɪ'refjʊtəb(ə)l; ,ɪrɪ'fjuː-]
adj. 不能驳倒的；不能回答的
hijack：['haɪdʒæk]
vt. 抢劫；揩油
vi. 拦路抢劫
n. 劫持；威逼；敲诈
The military in Nigeria says at least thirty people have been killed in a suspected Islamist attack in the northeastern town of x. An army spokesman said two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a busy market, wounding dozens of others.
The U.N. Human Rights Office says it's received reports that hundreds of Syrian men have gone missing after crossing into government-controlled West Aleppo. Sources in Aleppo have told a BBC correspondent there that some men have been taken for...
